Shishou
English
Alternative forms
- Shihshow (Postal Romanization)
- Shih-shou (Wade–Giles)
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 石首 (Shíshǒu).
Proper noun
Shishou
- A county-level city in Jingzhou, Hubei, China.
- [1980, Wanda Cornelius, Thayne Short, “The Twenty-third Fighter Group: November-December 1943”, in Ding Hao: America's Air War in China, 1937-1945, Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 377:
- They strafed Shihshou and along the eastern shore of the great Tungting Lake.]
- 2009 July 17, Edward Wong, “Chinese Question Police Absence in Ethnic Riots”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-04-23, Asia Pacific:
- Last month, tens of thousands of residents of Shishou, in Hubei Province, clashed with riot police officers over the mysterious death of a hotel chef.
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